Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-13

feed the people of the world, and yet
| it is so.
We send our fruits beyond our Dor
ders and they return us an anxious
people desirous to spy out the state
where her fruits ripen in the sunshine
of perpetual summer.
But why detain you here tonight
surrounded as you are by something
richer, greater, grander, more enter
tanning and instructive-the rich and
varied products OF your southern
home.
1t is my province, however. to wei.
come YOU here tonight. To extend
to you all hearty greeting. The Po,
mological Society of Southern Califor-
mia bids you all cordial welcome.
RESPONSE BY GENERAL PILE.
The address of General VIM. A.
Pile, of Monrovia, was in substance
as follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-My first
command in the army was battery
of twenty pound parrot guns and
twenty-four-pound howitzers, the larg-
est class of field battery known to the
American artillery service, and with
those guns, especially with the parrots,
l did some very long range shooting
But this vocal range across this vast
space between me and most of you is
rather wider and longer than am ac-
customed to. | don't know as there
is much use in responses, either, to
addresses of welcome. But there
are one or two things that
1 will suggest. Somebody said,
/ don't remember who, that
mans real wants were few and easily
supplied. And while this may be an
over statement of the truth, it is GER
tain that mans real wants may be
classified, as l think, under three
simple heads-food, raiment and
shelter. Political economists are in
the habit of measuring the value of
money as a potential agent in admin
istering to human necessities, upon
the amount of food it will purchase,
the number of people it will COM
fortably clothe, and the number of
people it will comfortable house.
And in this great struggle
of life for bread and raiment and shell
ter, he who increases the number Of
wholesome articles of food, he who
improves the character of known arti-
cles of food, or he who cheapens the
price of that which is necessary for
the well being OF communities, wheth-
er it be represented by an individual
or society or an organization, by in
dividual effort or associated effort, is a
public benefactor-a benefactor to his
race, to the time in which he lives and
all the future and oncoming genera
tions of men.
Then, sir, every society, every or
ganization, every effort that tends to
multiply the variety of human food,
tends to the improvement of the char
acter of human food, that tends to
cheaper the production of human
food, is contributing to that which lays
at the foundation of all human well
being, and is engaged in work whose
Importance is beyond all compensa-
ton, and whose results will be and
are as far reaching as civilization and
the destiny of the race. Hence, sir,
the importance of the society to whom
has been addressed these eloquent
words OF welcome.
Though the word "pomology," aris-
ing originally from the Roman god
dess Pomona" meant simply three
fruits, yet, in the wider modern ex-
tension of the term and its practical
application in the organization OF So
cieties, it embraces the cultivation of
everything beautiful that administers
to the aesthetic. as we'll as the physical
and more exacting and practical ma
ture of man. This field of work in
these fairs and these exhibitions is
within the province of this and all
kindred societies, and l hope to see
this place, in less than twenty-four
hours, crowded with Natures beauties
in the form of flowers.
1t only remains for me to thank you
for the generous and courteous words
of welcome that you extended to this
society, and to express the hope that
here and elsewhere all efforts tending
ing in the direction that the line of
remark l have pursued so briefly in
dicates-to cheaper the products OF
industry that enter into the range of
consumption, and furnish greater and
better variety of healthful food for the
masses-may meet here and every
where that encouragement and gen.
erous response from the public which
it deserves, and ought to receive.
THE EXHIBITS.
Los Angeles-Milton Thomas. The
exhibit occupied one whole table over
fifty feet long and twelve feet wide.
This table was literally covered with
plates containing the kinds OF fruits
commonly supposed to be indigenous
to northern soil and colder climates.
There were between three hundred
and twenty-five and three hundred and
fifty plates containing about one hun
dred and fifty varieties of apples, pears
and peaches.
Alhambra-This exhibit was ar
ranged by f. E. Gray and w. L: Phil
lips, and contained samples Of fruit
which would have made even an East
erner envious. The exhibitors were
VIM. Stevenson, Ii varieties of apples,
2 of oranges and 2 of peaches; 6. B,
Adams, s varieties of apples, 8 of or.
anges and l of pears; f. G. Story, a
varieties Of figs, 2 OF apples, OF ounce,
l2 of grapes and 2 of oranges; w. L.
Phillips, 1S varieties of pears, oi
pomegranates, 6 of apples and 2 ot
ounces; H. Olsen, of Sierra Vista
ranch, IL varieties of grapes; Frank
Williams, 5 varieties of peaches, 5 Of
grapes, 2 of pears and 2 Of apples; r
| +. Bishop, Z varieties of apples, ! o
pears, of oranges, of peaches and
of lemons; D. James, 2 varieties o
apples and one of pomegranates; E
p. Ferguson, variety of pears, 5 O
apples and one of peaches; Eli Mes
senger, 5 varieties OF apples, 5 o
grapes, l of figs, of lemons and 7 o
peaches. -,
Downey-This exhibit will not be
completed until the day set aside fol
| its special benefit. The exhibitory
were: T. J. Kent, box of butter; L